Varun Batra

About Varun Batra

I work in the space between regulatory expectation and executive decision-making — ensuring organizations understand, accept, and govern risk deliberately rather than reactively.I am an Information Security Governance professional with 10+ years of experience supporting regulated organizations through structured, risk-based security and compliance frameworks. My work focuses on building clarity, consistency, and predictability across information security governance—enabling leadership to make informed risk acceptance decisions without operational disruption.My core expertise spans cyber and privacy risk governance, ISO 27001–based security programs, enterprise risk management aligned to ISO cloud governance across Azure and AWS environments, and regulatory & controls assurance for complex organizations. I specialize in translating regulatory, contractual, and security requirements into clear policies, governance models, risk registers, and control frameworks that support sustainable compliance rather than reactive execution.I operate most effectively in environments that value structured accountability, documented decision rationale, and deliberate risk ownership. My approach is calm, methodical, and governance-driven—focused on defining guardrails, clarifying accountability, and enabling leadership with accurate risk visibility. I am intentionally aligned to governance and oversight roles rather than operational firefighting, audit execution, or incident-driven work.I have collaborated closely with technology, legal, privacy, risk, and compliance stakeholders to strengthen governance maturity, improve cloud compliance posture, manage third-party risk, and maintain audit-ready control environments. My experience includes policy lifecycle management, cloud risk and posture reviews, enterprise risk and controls reporting, vendor assurance, and regulatory alignment across large delivery ecosystems.My work aligns best with organizations operating under regulatory or contractual scrutiny where governance clarity, structured risk acceptance, and leadership assurance are critical to operating at scale.The objective is not only compliance — but defensible decision-making.I am typically engaged where organizations need predictable governance, clear accountability boundaries, and confidence in security decisions at scale.

Experience

1. Data Protection & Infosec Compliance Lead(Security Governance, Risk & Controls Oversight)

   Accenture in India

   Jun 2022 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Provide second-line governance interpretation and risk visibility for regulated client environments across cyber, privacy, and cloud domains.•Define governance guardrails, risk acceptance structure, and control accountability aligned to ISO 27001.•Oversee enterprise and cloud risk assessments (Azure/AWS), including risk identification, treatment validation, exception management, and residual risk acceptance.•Provide executive-level risk visibility through structured dashboards, KRIs, and governance reporting to senior stakeholders.•Act as a trusted governance advisor to technology, privacy, legal, and risk leaders, translating regulatory and contractual requirements into practical governance models.•Support regulatory and client assurance activities by coordinating governance inputs, validating remediation plans, and ensuring sustained compliance posture.

Education

• Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

  B.Tech, Electronics and Communication

  2004 — 2008

• DAV Dayanand Vihar

  High School, Physics,Chemistry,Maths

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Testing
• Project Planning
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Resource Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Planning
• Project Management
• Telecommunications
• Vendor Management
• Business Strategy
• Mobile Applications
• Manual Testing
• Program Management
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Business Analysis
• Business Requirements
• Team Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Management
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Analysis
• Business Development
• Web Applications
• Test Cases
• Enterprise Software
• Product Management
• User Acceptance Testing